It is my great pleasure to welcome Daniel Liberzon, a professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, as the next editor for the nonlinear systems and control area within Automatica. Daniel is well known in the nonlinear systems and control field for a vast array of contributions, including his pioneering work on switched nonlinear systems. I am especially pleased that Daniel’s resear...

A change of editorship is always likely to have some influence on the strategy of a journal. In this case, however, our joint editorship will continue many of the aims established by Dr. Tim Betts, who has made Seizure a recognised journal for European epileptology and one with a global influence. We are very grateful for his hard work in establishing the journal, for his endurance and his pass...